Metal God RIP

The Goddess household is very sad today with the news that Ronnie Dio died this morning from stomach cancer.
My son thinks he is a metal God.

Here is one of the most fraked up videos of all time, Holy Diver in honor of Dio:

As Fat As I Wanna Be

This.
Awesome.

(I actually wish I was fat because I ate fatty tasty food all the time but I don't. Even the Mr. and The Teen comment on how it sucks that I eat so much less food then them and never lose weight.)

Smooth Petunia (Ruellia strepens)

One of my first wild flower surprises when we moved into our present home was the wild Smooth Petunias that showed up next to the house in the "shade garden".
They come back every year in May.
This year I got an even bigger surprise when one showed up in the above planter.
I have no idea how it got there, but I will enjoy it (and mark the area so I never disturb it) while the short lived blooms are there.
Here is more information on Smooth Petunias.

RIP

Lena Horne

Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day Early

Guess what I got for Mother's Day?
An iPod Touch.
I wanted one, said I wanted on for Mother's Day and The Teen bought me an 8g one.
Me love it.Now that Amazon has a Kindle App for them I was finally able to get a device that allows me to download books and play around on the internet while sitting on the sofa.
(really this is all about the lack of a laptop/notebook and not wanting to spend more then $200...the Touch was $175 on Amazon.)

What are your favorite apps?

Photoshop Freak Hands

Jebus.
This is some photoshopping that has gone horribly wrong.
SJP and Kim Catrell look like they have some type of freaky toddler hands attached to their arms.
Or mutant limbs that are in the process of actually growing....
Listen I know I have commented on SJP's 80 year old lady hands, but for heaven's sake that does not mean they should be erased and replaced with freaky doll hands.
Adult humans, no matter what their age, have knuckles and veins.

Via both Jezebel and Projectrungay.

Truth in Politics

I've added a new set of links to the blog.
Truth in Politics.
They are Politifact, Media Matters and Fact Check.
Politifact has nice widgets to let you know if what a pol is saying is actually the truth or a lie and gives a nice breakdown of what campaign promises the President has broken.
Media Matters spends it's time truth checking the spewing of fucks like Hannity, Beck and Rush.
Fact Check is where I go whenever I hear some bullshit story about how Obama is planning to monitor all Christians and take away their dogs. It is a good tool to use when in an online argument with some ill-informed Tea Party loving relative.
Use these and you will be a better citizen.

Turban Chic

Via Bobby Pin Blog.
A short video from 1942:
Anne Edwards fashion expert and editor of "Woman" magazine shows women how to combat hat rationing by making glamorous turbans from scarves. Various shots of woman (could be Edwards or could be model - not made clear in commentary) demonstrating how to tie scarves into different styles. Flowers, feathers and costume jewellery are used to decorate the turbans.

TURBANS (issue title is WAYS AND MEANS)

You have to click on the image and it will take you to British Pathe

I'm Back

Sorry about that.
I've been fighting some nasty viruses and a hacker Trojan for the last week or so and finally had to give up and reformat my hard drive and I forgot to save my bookmarks and, well, it has sucked.
But I have also been cooking.
I got 2 new cookbooks:


Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies and Biscuit Bliss.
Excellent choices.
I've made some awesome biscuits in the last few weeks with the yogurt and cake flour being really, really awesome. Yummy and delicate. The best part is the exhortation of the author to use only flour from "southern wheat" like Martha White and the OK that you can use self rising flour. Which has allowed me to make large, fluffy biscuits without that baking powder after taste.

Pies on the other hand are something I do a pretty good job with anyway, but have found a new crust which uses vinegar and egg. Something I had never made was Chess Pie. Since I got Mrs. Rowe's Chess Pie has become my favorite with chocolate and then the lemon one being just outstanding.
I mean these are 2 of the best pies I have ever tasted.

Other news includes a teenager who went LARPing and now has a "boot" for his severely sprained ankle.
Good times.

Just Stop

The Church needs to stop with the Op Eds and the bull shit from people like Bill
Donahue.

If I was talking to the Pope right now I would tell him what I think we Catholics need from our Church.
I need to hear is this:
quia peccavi
nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere:
mea culpa,
mea culpa,
mea maxima culpa.

I want to hear repentance.
I want 2011 to be the year The Church goes though a deep and meaningful penance.
I want the Pope and the Cardinals and the Bishops to throw off their vestments and wear some form of sack cloth and ashes for that year.
I don't want the Pope to resign, I want him to take responsibility.
I'd like to see the church bring any victim to Rome who is willing and have the Pope personally apologize to them.
I want them all to say over and over again (and I don't care that it is no longer happening or that most of them were never involved or that a good amount of the perps are dead):
"We have sinned grievously"

That's what I would tell the Pope The Church needs to do to fix this.

Must Love Cats

Simon's Cat "Fly Guy"

Did Someone Say Waterloo?

I thought that Health Care was going to be Obama's Waterloo.

Republican Tears are Tasty

More Kitty Goodness

Because You Have Been So Good

I am assuming that you all have good little minions and are calling/faxing you Congress Critters as we speak.
As a reward I give you Kitty Shark Sweater:


First...the sweater is covered with fucking awesome sauce and I think anyone who has the balls to put a sweater on a cat who looks like a demon is, well, pretty ballsy.

Next...that cat is fabulous and brilliant and just so damn pretty in a demon cat way.

Last...the "I WILL KEEL U" look is priceless.

There is also a Rocket Sweater!
I wanna make a super sonic kitty of you!

Grandma's Dress

I have this fun vintage Kay Windsor dress for sale on Damn Good Vintage.


Cute, right?

I was looking though some old photographs and found this:

Yep, my Grandma is wearing the same Kay Windsor dress.
Real vintage worn by real women.
Nice bit of serendipity.

EDIT:
Yes, that is me and how awesome is that bit of end of the world art behind the sofa?

Teh!Ghey is Gonna Ruin Your Prom

See that pretty girl?
She is gay and she had the nerve to want to wear a tux and take her girlfriend to the prom.
Of course her first mistake was asking the inbred morons who run her high school if she could even wear a tux (seriously? Who gives a fuck what she wears as long as her boobs and lady bits are hidden) and if she could bring her same sex date.
Personally I think they should have just shown up at the door....girls go to dances with each other all the time.
I went with 6 other girls.
No one would have even paid any attention until they slow danced.

Can't have young women wearing tuxes and slow dancing in Mississippi. Next thing you know they will think that they have a right to get married to whomever the hell they want to.

So the school district decided to just cancel prom and blame it all on Constance so she could become the target of every redneck mouth breathing homophobe fundi who lives in her town. Plus this will make the next student who might think of getting uppity to think twice.
Nice.

But Constance is an awesome gal and she is not backing down and she won't be bullied. The ACLU has gotten involved and even if she does not go to prom (and honey, I can tell you that going to prom is an overrated "rite of passage") she is going to stand up for what is right and for the students who will come after her.

Rockabilly Beyonce

If you don't like Lady Gaga or Beyonce then move on, but if you do then I'm telling you the new Gaga video is a hoot.
A cheesy Russ Meyer homage.
Think Faster, Faster Pussycat in a women's prison.
I loved it.
And Beyonce rocking the rockabilly pinup look is very hawt.




Oh and Lady Gaga enters a prison exercise yard wearing chains and smoking cigarettes sunglasses.
Covered with awesome sauce.

The song sucked though.
NSFW

SJP's Old Lady Hands

WTF? Is up with Sarah Jessica Parker's hands?

The guys over at Projectrungay had a close-up and she has the hands of some 80 year old society gal who smokes like a chimney and has Manhattans from 3-6 every day.
Seriously, look at these:
She is only TWO years older then me and I'm sure she is rich enough to slather her hands with some crazy vile lotion made of pearls and virgin kitten tears. Maybe she actually is an 80 year old woman and the lotion works everywhere except on her hands because they are covered with the blood of the thousand kittahs that were sacrificed to maintain her mask of hardened middle age?


BTW I hated the dress front, love the back and her retro Streisand/Gary Oldman as Dracula hair is quite awesome.